The Interminable War of Men against Nature: An Ecological View on Sidney Sheldon’s The Best Laid Plans

Abstract

War is the major threaten of human beings against nature and its resources. In this scientific and technological era, wars are more than a natural calamity which could swipe millions of beings and their chief dependent, nature in seconds. Countries all over the world negotiate and create peace treaties; on the other hand they do research in nuclear weapon which is disastrous. Now-a-days a countries power is determined only by the weapons that they posses. The worse impact of war, its exploitation and total destruction of nature and its resources are described very effectively and empathetically in Sidney Sheldon’s The Best Laid Plans. The novel pictures the traumatic effect of war on human beings and nature as a whole in Sarajevo. In this mode the paper deals with the study of the novel in relation to ecocriticism, the application of ecological concepts to the study of literature.